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  1. No surprised about hacks on Google Cracks Down On Mugshot Blackmail Sites · · Score: 1

    Journalists (and their rich and shadowy owners) just love to be able to monster (ie destroy their reputation/life) those who they disagree with - see how the daily mail is treating Ed Miliband.

  2. Re:Branding? on Google Cracks Down On Mugshot Blackmail Sites · · Score: 1

    But you should also mark all those who have worked as Journalists (or been to J school) with a J on the forehead so we know not to trust them

  3. Re:Only one purpose on Boston Dynamics Wildcat Can Gallop — No Strings Attached · · Score: 1

    Horses actually require a lot of support in terms of food compared to mechanized units.

  4. Re:Sure, to lower paying jobs on The Luddites Are Almost Always Wrong: Why Tech Doesn't Kill Jobs · · Score: 1

    Yes there are a few jumped up shopkeepers that really need putting in their place - ironically I worked on campus at CIT (Cranfield Uni) and the MBA students (top 5 in europe) where considered to have settled for second best by a majority of the student body

  5. Re:Nothing you can do? on The Hail Mary Cloud and the Lessons Learned · · Score: 1

    Sorry i meant to say only allow su to root only from the physical console

  6. Re:Can't change more than nine times on MasterCard Joining Push For Fingerprint ID Standard · · Score: 1

    only some people can remember 10 digit numbers dyslexics have severe difficulties in remembering more than 3

  7. Re:Nothing you can do? on The Hail Mary Cloud and the Lessons Learned · · Score: 1

    not permitting direct login as root at all is a good idea - it what su was invented for (amongst other things)

  8. Re:Sure, to lower paying jobs on The Luddites Are Almost Always Wrong: Why Tech Doesn't Kill Jobs · · Score: 1

    thats why all the rich Chinese cadres have expensive houses in the west so that if it goes realy pear shaped and the mob comes for them they have some where to run to instead of hanging from the lampposts

  9. Re:Sure, to lower paying jobs on The Luddites Are Almost Always Wrong: Why Tech Doesn't Kill Jobs · · Score: 1

    Don't forget that RPI CPI etc are developed by government departments and are open to gaming by the executive for example replacing a cheaper item with an more expensive item that they know will under go rapid cost reductions thus fiddling the figure.

    Also a lot of these measures miss out things like housing costs

  10. Re:accidental lie by omission. on Facebook Building a Company Town · · Score: 1

    Yeah there is quite a difference between rapacious capitalist robber barons and quakers.

  11. Re:Sure, to lower paying jobs on The Luddites Are Almost Always Wrong: Why Tech Doesn't Kill Jobs · · Score: 1

    yep in the nearest town to Amazons main center in the UK in bedfordshire both the independent book sellers have closed. Amazon is such a low wage employer they have difficulty attracting local workers - the drug testing and bg checks seem a little over the top for a retailer who do they think they are Hanslope park or Chicksands :-)

  12. Re:the problem is it on Personal Genomics Firm 23andMe Patents Designer Baby System · · Score: 1

    there was a segment on news night in the UK about this trend just the other day its not just India

  13. Re:the problem is it on Personal Genomics Firm 23andMe Patents Designer Baby System · · Score: 2

    You know that in many cultures lots of female babys are aborted as there is immense societal pressure to have a Boy.

  14. the problem is it on Personal Genomics Firm 23andMe Patents Designer Baby System · · Score: 1

    will be used mostly to select sex of baby's

  15. Re:Now, also make it understandable on Former Microsoft Privacy Chief Doesn't Trust Company, Uses Open Source Software · · Score: 1

    Yep and I know which end of a soldering iron gets hot to

  16. Re:Fucking idiots on U.S. Government: Sorry, We're Closed · · Score: 1

    Make Belgium and Italy look good and most Republicans woudl seem to be those that would fail UKIP's Nutter test

  17. Re:Now, also make it understandable on Former Microsoft Privacy Chief Doesn't Trust Company, Uses Open Source Software · · Score: 1

    Would certainly reduce congestion on the roads - I can just see Cpatain Slow and the hampster trying to coach Jeremy Clarkson through that part of the driving test :-)

  18. Re:Why Switzerland ? on Swiss War Game Envisages Invasion By Bankrupt French · · Score: 1

    No do it as a joint Uk/French/Spanish/German (if they are allowed out after dark these days) operation and take out the Chanel islands Andora,Lictensien and Monaco in one go

  19. Re:Countries do this all the time on Swiss War Game Envisages Invasion By Bankrupt French · · Score: 1

    Cough Cough Delawre :-)

  20. Re:Countries do this all the time on Swiss War Game Envisages Invasion By Bankrupt French · · Score: 1

    wel that is because the RAF et all to be blunt where a bunch of middle class pussys - The death caused by the troubles in NI is much higher because the IRA and UDA where much better organized 3.5 dead 50k total casualties. From work I know maybe 6 or 7 people from NI and 2 of them are going through the truth and reconciliation process ie you have had a very close family member killed thats over 25%

  21. Re:Real horsepower on Fighting Zombies? Chevrolet Reveals New "Black Ops" Concept Truck · · Score: 2

    Its the Equoids you have to watch out for http://www.tor.com/stories/2013/09/equoid

  22. Re:Good grief. on Fighting Zombies? Chevrolet Reveals New "Black Ops" Concept Truck · · Score: 1

    nah the gimpy (m240) goes on the passenger door swivel mount the .5 cal goes on the pintel mount :-)

  23. Re:Does anyone understand the "zombies" craze? on Fighting Zombies? Chevrolet Reveals New "Black Ops" Concept Truck · · Score: 1

    or residual human resources as the Laundry refers to them

  24. Re:Highly unusual? Hardly. on US Nuclear Commander Suspended Over Gambling · · Score: 1

    Yeah I spend far more on my model solders than I do occasionally playing poker in pubs even though i think we broke the law on the stakes £10 rather than £5

  25. Re:Highly unusual? Hardly. on US Nuclear Commander Suspended Over Gambling · · Score: 1

    Hm wonder how may family connections to UK off course bookies pre legalization would go do down in the USA :-) You dont often hear the term "mostly legal" at a funeral.